Tao Dingfu thought of something just then and said, "Senior Brother Yuan is also out there contacting fellow cultivators. He is running about everywhere, so he may not have received my message in time."
Nie Xinying said, "Senior Brother need not worry. I will try to contact every fellow disciple shortly. So long as even one of them sees Senior Brother Yuan, he will learn of it. Besides, unless a Profound Venerable personally intervenes, with Senior Brother Yuan's skill in concealment and escape, it is not certain anyone can do anything to him."
Tao Dingfu agreed with this assessment.
This Senior Brother Yuan was most skilled in the arts of concealment and escape, and spent all day studying them. It seemed he intended to use this path to climb to a higher realm. Even the figure who had spoken with him that day—Tao Dingfu could not tell whether it had been real or false. So long as this man did not show himself willingly, unless one was a Profound Venerable, it was not certain one could find where his true body lay.
He said, "I will first give Junior Brother Zhang a word of warning."
After Tao Dingfu left, Jiang Xun suddenly thought of something and asked worriedly, "Although Zhang Xuanzun is now a Profound Venerable, the sect is also immensely powerful, and there seem to be several Profound Venerables within it. If they join forces to pressure him, can Zhang Xuanzun withstand such coercion?"
He was not worried for himself. At worst, the sect would come looking for him. Zhang Yu was plainly a Profound Venerable and could have stayed apart from the matter, with no need to wade into these muddy waters. If he were dragged in because of them, or blamed by the Profound Court, Jiang Xun